[4] He was honoured by the Government of India in 1972 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
[8] After graduating in medicine, he did master's course at the University of Bristol[9] and completed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, becoming one of the first five neurosurgeons of India.
[1] In 1977, he was appointed as the deputy director of Health Services by the Government of India for a one-year term.
[3] Marthanda Varma was married to Malathi, a lecturer at APS college and the couple had two sons.
[16] Varma, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences,[17] received the Rajyotsava Prashasti from the government of Karnataka in 1969.